Device for feeding milk to calves.



M. 'I. GOLDMAN.

DEVICE FOR FEEDING MILK 'I'O OALVES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1908. I

Patented May 11', 1909.

' 'elnventoz Mary 6'0707770/7 witness MARY I. GOLDMAN, OF CHASE, KANSAS.

DEVICE FOR FEEDING MILK TO CALVES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, lacs.

Application filed June 3, 1908. Serial No. $6,512.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY I. GOLDMAN, citizen of the United States, residing at Chase, in the county of Rice and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Feeding Milk to Calves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object, a simple, durable and eflicient construction of a de vice for feeding milk to calves and the invention consists in certain constructions and ar rangement and combinations of the parts that I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved feeding device; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the block; Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the device. Fig. 4 1s a detail sectional view of a block winch constltutes a portion of the device.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following descriptlon and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

My invention comprises a preferably wooden buoyant block 1 which is formed at its upper end into a nipple 2, an opening 3 extending through the nipple and leading downwardly through the block as shown and communicating at its lower end with the upper end of a tube 4 which is secured in the lower end of the block.

5 designates a weight which is secured to the lower end of the block 1 and which is designed to hold the same in a milk pail with the nipple end uppermost.

The block 1 is intended to be suspended in a pail or bucket containing milk, the suspension means of my invention comprising cords 6 that are secured at one end to staples 7 fas tened to the block 1 and that are secured at their opposite ends bymeans of snaps as shown to loops 8 that are formed in a preferably wire girdle 9. The girdle 9 is designed to encircle a milk pail or bucket 10, the ends of the girdle overlapping and being formed with eyes, retaining cords 12 being secured to said eyes and being wrapped tightly around the pail at the upper edge thereof and fastened tggether so as to securely hold the girdle in p If desired, one of these cords 12 may be provided with a loop 13 so that the bucket may be secured to a post or the like.

In the practical use of my improved calf feeding device the block 1 is suspended within the pail of milk, with the nipple 2 uppermost, the girdle 9 being secured around the upper edge of the pail and fastened in place by means of cords 12, the loops 8 projecting inwardly and over the upper edge, and the cords 6 retaining the block in place.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A device of the character described, comprising a block formed at its upper end with a nipple and having an opening extending therethrough from the nipple, a weight secured to the block, and means for suspend ing the block within a pail.

2. A device of the character described, comprising a block formed at its upper end with a nipple and having an opening extending therethrough from the nipple, suspension cords secured to said block, a girdle designed to encircle a milk pail and to which said cords are connected, and means for binding said girdle to a pail.

3. The combination with a milk pail, of a girdle encircling and secured to said pail and formed with loops projecting inwardly over the upper edge of the pail, cords connected at one end to said loops, and a block secured to the other ends of said cords and formed at its upper end with a nipple, and having an opening extending therethrough from the nipple.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARY I. GOLDMAN.

\Vitnesses:

FRED L. WILLARD, J. B. GOLDMAN. 

